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Jill Y

Smithsonian Institution
Participates in 1 Session

Sessions in which Jill Y participates

Saturday 6 February, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
1:30 PM
1:30 PM CST - 3:00 PM CST | 1 hour 30 minutes
Expert/ EducatorSEEC CrewGrades K-12

Sessions in which Jill Y attends

Friday 5 February, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
8:00 AM
8:00 AM CST - 9:00 AM CST | 1 hour
Keynote

How did we get here from the Big Bang? Astronomers, geologists, and biologists all look back in time to work out the picture. I will show the history of the universe from the Big Bang to now, and how we found out. I will show the basic forces leading to complexity, from hurricanes to life. And how far can we go? That depends on our ingenuity, and on what Nature gives us to work with. Let’s get on with it!John C. MatherDr. Mather is the Senior Proje...

2:45 PM
2:45 PM CST - 3:30 PM CST | 45 minutes
Networking Lounges and Tours

Along with your guide, Stephanie McMahon take a journey and exlpore Space Center Houston's Saturn V building and Rocket Park.

Saturday 6 February, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
9:00 AM
9:00 AM CST - 10:00 AM CST | 1 hour
Networking Lounges and Tours

The lead for Protocol at JSC will take participants on a virtual tour of JSC’s Mission Control and Building 9.

10:30 AM
12:15 PM
12:15 PM CST - 1:15 PM CST | 1 hour
Grades K-12

Join us for a special panel on the research being conducted on the International Space Station. The event will be led by Dr. Liz Warren, Ph.D., Senior Program Director, ISS National Laboratory. Lucie LowDr. Lucie Low is a Scientific Program Manager for the NIH Tissue Chips (also known as ‘organs-on-chips’) program at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is also the NIH-NASA Liaison Point of Contac...

3:15 PM
3:15 PM CST - 4:15 PM CST | 1 hour
Keynote

Persevering with innovation is a consistent theme in science fiction and in real life. Join us as author Andy Weir, astronaut Cady Colman, and IntelChief Data Scientist Melvin Greer, discuss ScienceFiction, ScienceFuture, and ScienceNow through the lens of space exploration and Andy’s new book Project Hail Mary.Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowe...